NASA World Wind Overview
NASA World Wind is one of the most popular virtual globes or virtual maps on the internet. However, it is not limited to the images of earth. You can also get images of some of the other planets, and images of space. These images can be accessed by anyone using internet and a computer. Some of the planets or worlds, which you can view through NASA World Wind, are given below.
Earth, moon, mars, Venus, Jupiter, etc. In addition to this, it also provides a Sloan digital sky survey.
Like the other virtual globes you the NASA World Wind as well is an interactive program. Therefore, you can browse through all these images; you can focus and enlarge any point of these images to get the further details. All this will give you an experience as if you are flying through the area in these images.
To add to it, these interactive images are actually real photographs taken from satellites. Moreover, they are in real colors and therefore whatever you see is perfectly image of real.
NASA World Wind provides a number of other useful features as well. it provide easy control options through both mouse as well keyboard, for the various controls like zooming in and zooming out at a particular point, moving from one place to another, etc. In addition to the images, it also provides useful data related to the place, for example name, coordinate data, whether reports, etc.
NASA World Wind was developed by NASA Ames Research Center and its first version was released in the year 2004. It is written in ‘C#’ language and it can work windows 2000 or XP editions. Note that, it does not currently support the other operating systems. Therefore, you will need a windows system if you want to use it. At this movement, it is available only in English language; however, efforts are going on to release it in some of the other languages as well.
NASA has placed an open source license on NASA World Wind and therefore everybody is free to use it. For using it, you need to download it first. This can be easily and freely done from eh official website of NASA World Wind. The download process is simple and quick as well. However, there are some basic requirements related to system and software, which your computer should satisfy. You can check out these requirements at the NASA World Wind download page.
After downloading and installing NASA World Wind on your computer, you can use it at any time through an internet connection. Using NASA World Wind is very simple because it was specially designed for the common people. If you are about to use internet then you will surely be able to use NASA World Wind as well.
NASA World Wind offers some advantages over the other earth browsing programs. The most important among them is that it offers images of some other worlds as well. For earth, also it has images for some regions under the sea as well.
The other advantages include number of add-ons and plug-institutes, the images are free from atmospheric effects like scattering etc, and therefore they feature more realistic colors, whether data, climatic data, coordinate data, accuracy, etc, to name a few.
Technorati Tags: NASA World Wind, Home, Wikipedia
Tags: NASA World Wind
